I hope everyone is having a pleasant and safe December. We’ve been busy visiting family, collecting new plants and of course working in the garden. I’ve managed to squeeze in…
We’ve had a good week weather-wise. Pleasant days of cool mornings, hot around midday and the typical Highveld afternoon thunderstorms. The Vaal dam is still desperately under capacity and our…
The mini sweet peppers I planted in December are doing great…some much better than others as you can see from the images below. I was inspired by a thread on…
2016 Weigh-In Day – Saturday the 5th of March. It’s here, TOMORROW is the 2016 Giant Pumpkin Weigh-in day. This article is brought to you by our friends from Living Seeds,…
This afternoon was a very fruitful one in the front garden. Yesterday my father-in-law and our groundsman finished a small project to fence off a large strip of the front…
The great pumpkin experiment has come to an end for this summer, due to the heatwave and a bout of mildew that I didn’t fix in time. It has been…
The Dill’s Atlantic Giants continue to do well. Our two main ones are about the size of soccerballs right now. We had to set up a protective barrier around one…
The giant pumpkin project started at the end of September 2014. After reading up on hugelkultur we set up a raised bed using some of its concepts. The bed didn’t…